Example sentences of "[vb pp] so long as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual way of expressing Boyle 's law , however , is Thus , when a gas is allowed to expand ( or is compressed ) at constant temperature from an initial volume of V1 to a final volume of V2 , the final pressure P2 can be calculated so long as the initial pressure Pl is known . |
| 2 | That way everyone born after that particular time would have their sins forgiven so long as they believed in Jesus . |
| 3 | In Jordan v. Burgoyne Lord Parker C.J. made the point that the expressions ‘ threatening , abusive or insulting ’ are all ‘ very strong words , ’ and Lord Reid in Brutus v. Cozens repeated the warning against too expansive a reading of the section , observing that ‘ vigorous and it may be distasteful or unmannerly speech or behaviour is permitted so long as it does not go beyond any of these limits . ’ |
| 4 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 5 | In its original form , it is a time-consuming and complicated procedure , but it can be simplified so long as the underlying principles are honoured ( see Arnold , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | Journalists do not mind being reminded so long as they do not think you are pressing them to write something they can not be sure will be published . |
| 7 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |
| 8 | Deer can be hunted , for example , whatever the reason , and nothing wrong is done so long as they are not overhunted . |
| 9 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 10 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 11 | He therefore directed that if J. were to suffer a life-threatening event while in the health authority 's care and the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority should cause such measures ( including artificial ventilation ) to be applied so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 12 | Is the Minister satisfied that those humanitarian needs have been met and are being met , or that they can be met so long as there is a risk to the Kurdish population from the evil dictator in Baghdad ? |
| 13 | And why does the dominant class submit to leaving some of its economic interests thwarted so long as its political interests are satisfied ? |
| 14 | He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad . |
| 15 | The purpose of looking at Hansard will not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear . |
| 16 | Finally , in rejecting the submission that relaxing the exclusionary rule could amount to the courts questioning proceedings in Parliament contrary to Article 9 of the Bill of Rights , Lord Browne-Wilkinson observed that ‘ the purpose of looking at Hansard could not be to construe the words used by the minister but to give effect to the words used so long as they are clear ’ . |
| 17 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 18 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 19 | The units are expendable and can easily be replaced so long as the tree is healthy . |
| 20 | British law in this area is roughly based on the liberal precept that immorality may only be tolerated so long as it remains a wholly private matter . |
| 21 | Yet this very claim for monarchy implies a limitation : the irrational and reverential institution is to be tolerated so long as it serves its function . |
| 22 | Although the laws will doubtless be tightened , no cure for the current state of financial laxity will be found so long as Yugoslavia has a ‘ soft budget ’ approach to monetary policy , and persists in its attempts to combine self-management with the doctrine of ‘ social ownership ’ . |
| 23 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 24 | None was admitted so long as Coleman was alive . |
| 25 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 26 | All Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army area were to be returned so long as this did not involve the " use of force " . |